Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:51:31 -0700 From: Mike Porter <mupi@mknet.org> To: The Utz Family <utz@serv.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: BSD not finding ESS 1878 sound chip... Message-ID: <01021416513101.81778@mukappa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.10102140725350.12060-100000@itchy.serv.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02.10102140725350.12060-100000@itchy.serv.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum > > this be plenty bad here...... > > > pnpbios: bad pnpbios checksum? That shouldn't affect the multimedia > > stuff, should it? > > hell yes! your pnp system has fallen over dead! :-) > most sound architectures are PnP aware/dependent. > Good point, although the BIOS has manual specifications of the audio settings. I did try compiling a new kernel without options PNPBIOS but that didn't help. > > well, not having looked at the code, i am going to guess that chip1, 8086 > and 1234 are placeholder values that some diligent dev added to their code > so that the system wouldnt crash if the probe failed to get started ( with > 'starting' coming before 'failing', u would be making progess if you could > get it to fail :-) ) > I see the point here. > my first guess wouold be to toggle the Plug and Play OS settings in the > BIOS (meaning that whatever it sez now, make it the other value, yes, no, > true, false, etc ) > > you might also try running 'pnpinfo' but i'll bet it dumps core....or at > least fails immediately with words to the effect of 'PnP not > intitialized...exiting' > will try those next opportunity I have to run that machine. > oh, and the other thing to check, is the soundcard support even tunred on > in the bios, usually bios's have an option to turn onboard sound off. > I have tried with the sound card enabled and disabled in the bios (to see if it makes a difference, and I still get the "chip1 <PCI to other bridge>" line. Which is part of why I don't think that is necessarily directly related to the multimedia issue. And I also tried shuffling around IRQs to a couple of different unused values....maybe I should try a used value and see if it breaks something.... > have you heard the sound work in windows? > it had windows when I first got it, and now I cant remember if it palyed sounds or not. I seem to remeber that it did. > the other thing to do is to go into the bios and manually assign the dma > and interrupt for the sound parts. > I tried changing the interrupt to no avail, but not the DMAs. I figure it should detect the card with or without working DMS's, I can worry about that after I get the card to at least detect. > but i wouldnt do that until i tried to sort out the pnp stuff. u might > also visit the manufacurers website and see if there is a bios update. There is no mention of my model any more on their web site. One thing I didn't try was emailing their technical support people to see if they have a bios upgrade available but not listed on the web site. I tried that almsot right off the bat. It seems that I may just be SOL on this particular project. But I'll give it one more college try <(}: mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqLGgMACgkQZ7GovTQbIm5RPgCggkDIT82zdBuHItUMdDlM7xAE H9AAn3SmrdjSEeWDTN/ZBAc9xiYeQBYv =Ax5+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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